Alex Leung brings out a small box. It’s covered in the rich orange of Hermès, one of the world’s most expensive luxury brands, and sits on the counter, elaborately embossed logo on the outside. Inside is a handbag made of alligator skin and tanned green. It’s secondhand but comes with a $85,000 price tag. You could fit a phone in it and not much more.
Casually he moves a $20,000 vintage Chanel handbag out of the way, to the other side of his desk. It almost seems a steal sitting in such proximity to the smaller, rarer Hermès that would cost the price of a deposit for an apartment.
